Exploration of the irradiated areas | Valuable Hints Metro: LL Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

In Metro: Last Light Artyom gets to explore the outside world, and other irradiated areas, more often than it was the case in the previous installment. The general premises have not changed too much, when it comes to that. So, again, you will have to wear the gas mask with filters that grant the possibility to breathe clean air.

The appropriate management of the filters is one of the keys to succeed, because you can not afford a situation in which your character is far away from any safe shelter without the possibility to breathe clean air. The filters that you get from NPCs and find in the most obvious of places usually grant you as much as a safe passage to your destination. If you want to explore some more, you need, therefore, remember to explore the area thoroughly and look for filters in the same spots as for the "regular" supplies i.e. crates and corpses. What is interesting, the filters that you scavenge out in the open, are rarely new and they last not more than the "standard" five minutes. The game displays the overall amount of time, in minutes, for all of the items of this kind in your inventory, at the moment of collecting a new filter.

Apart from the filters described above, you should also remember about replacing your gas mask. As a result of the battles you fight, your mask is damaged, which is depicted by the cracks that gradually appear in your vision. That is why, apart from filters, it is also a good idea to search for new masks, which can usually be found on corpses. Otherwise, you may bring about a situation in which your current mask is totally destroyed, and you will have to find a new one as quickly as possible (which usually ends in failure and Artyom's death).